When I woke up in the morning....

I know what you are expecting.

His hand on my waist and we cuddling each other.

Hold your horses' people.

This type of cliché will only happen in TV series or in Wattpad books. This is real life. Nothing happens. It will be so awkward to sleep on the same bed with your boss that you will never go into a deep sleep. Even though you are sleeping, your subconscious is always on alert. You just hope that this torturous night ends soon. You are perceptible to even small changes in the other person's breathing.

Sure, this scenario is exciting when watching a movie or while reading a book but, trust me, it is not at all exciting. You will literally count every second in a minute constantly looking at the clock wondering how only one minute has passed but, you feel like you lived through a million years. It is exhausting.

The same thing happened to me. I slept, but I was awake throughout the night. I only slept when he woke up and left the room in the early morning. And not to mention, my entire left side is aching for sleeping in the same position. No book or movie explains the cons of these situations.

I am sorry for destroying your romantic imagination, but someone has to tell the truth.

It's almost ten in the morning when I woke up. This is my first-day stay here, but I woke up late. What will his family think? I immediately got ready rushed downstairs to see Arjun sir and his mom at the dining table and eating breakfast. I greeted them. She smiled and greeted me.

"I am sorry aunty, I overslept" I apologized to her.

"No need to be so formal Anu. Even if you wake up early, there is nothing for you to do. Come have your breakfast" she told me smilingly.

I obliged her and sat beside her. She kept two parathas on my plate and gave me mango juice. I started eating.

"I was just asking Golu about his work. He just now told me that you and he are working under Prof. Acharya" she asked me.

"Umm....yes aunty...from next week"

"That's very great. So, from next week you two will have the same shifts" she looked at us excitedly.

He and I looked at each other. He then turned to his mother, "Mom, we will have different shifts. There are more people in our team. It is impossible to have the same shifts" he told her exasperatedly.

"You don't worry about that Golu, I will talk to Acharya. He is my senior in college" she counterattacked him.

"Mom, I don't want anyone to know that I am your son. I am not ready for unwanted attention. I just want to focus on my studies", he told her with a sigh.

"So tell me what can we do? If you both have different shifts, then you guys won't be able to spend time with each other. Then what is the purpose of you both living here? That is why I will talk with Acharya. He won't tell anybody. He will keep a secret." she pressed us.

"Mom, you will do nothing. We both will work in the same shifts. Don't worry" he gave in to her.

Wow. She just blackmailed him very elegantly.

Shortly after, he left for his shift. Kavya too returned from her trip. Aunty, Kavya, Amit dadu, and I talked for some time and I too left for my night shift.

Once I reached the hospital and completed all my rounds, I looked at my schedule, I have a surgery lined up in the early morning at six and since it is night shift, there is not much to do except checking on the patients once in a while. All the residents who are in the shift are in the residents' room except some junior residents' that are in the Neuro ICU and neuro ward. Some residents are sleeping, some are studying and some are talking. I looked at him. He was studying.

After some time, I got a mail from Natasha mam. She sent the shift roster for our team to fill up for the next month and I observed that shifts for both Natasha mam and Arjun sir are already marked. I let out a sigh and marked my shifts the same as him and forwarded it to the group so that other residents will fill up. I hope no one will doubt that we both have the same shifts.

The rest of my shift was routine with surgeries, emergencies, rounds and studying. Once I am done with my shift, I checked my phone to see a message from him.

"I am waiting for you in the car park"

I frowned at that. His shift ended three hours ago. I could have taken a cab. Why is he waiting instead of going home and take rest?

I found his car in the car park and knocked on the passenger window. He was watching a surgery video. Typical devil. Seeing me, he unlocked the car and I got in.

"It's been three hours. You should have gone home. I could have booked a cab" I told him.

Don't ask me why.

Even I don't know why I am asking him.

He simply shrugged and started the car.

"We both are going to the same destination and moreover, it is eleven at night. I don't want you to take a cab this late at night"

We talked about a DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) surgery that we have to perform through the drive. He promised that he will help me in studying as this is a major surgery.

When we reached home, he went first to freshen up and I sat on the couch to resume reading Satanic Verses. When he came back, I went to freshen up. By the time I came back and getting ready to sleep, he entered the room waving a blanket at me and smiled at me.

"I managed to steal an extra blanket from Kavya's room," he told me proudly as if he got a Nobel prize.

I chuckled at him and gave him thumbs up.

We both then settled on the bed this time with our own blankets and our backs facing each other and slept.

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